If you live The construction of the negative forms in French works differently than in English because it is composed of two elements and because of its placement: the first element, ne (n’), comes in front of the conjugated verb; the second or main negation (pas, jamais, rien, etc..) has to be placed after the conjugated verb. For example, if you wanted to make the following sentence negative, Je lis Le Monde chaque matin, it would be like this: Je ne lis pas Le Monde chaque matin.

The use of ne is flexible in spoken French:
At school, we learned that we must always place ne before the verb in order to support the negative, but you will notice in spoken French that it often disappears. Instead of saying “Je NE lis PAS le journal français”, you might hear “Je lis PAS le journal français”. Although it is nearly always written, ne is often dropped in spoken French. Note that ne becomes n' in front of a verb starting with a vowel or a mute h.

Another particularity of the negative structure is the use of ‘DE’ before a noun. In a normal, positive statement or when asking a question in the affirmative form, you would use articles such as “un”, “une”, “de la”, “des”, “du”, BUT when the response is formed negatively, then you will notice these same articles are replaced by “DE”!